Issey Miyake to show IM Men in Paris menswear season in January (#1685905)

The house of Issey Miyake has unveiled plans to stage a debut runway show of its IM Men collection during the next French menswear season in January in Paris.
 
“We are pleased to inform you, that starting from the next Paris Men’s Fashion Week, Autumn Winter 2025/26 season in January 2025, we will present the collection from IM Men,” read a joint statement from Midori Kitamura and Hiroki Kaito, respectively the chairman and CEO of Miyake.
 

Launched in 2021 under direction of founder Issey Miyake, IM Men creates clothing designed to reflect the practice of integrating design and engineering.
 
The collection will be presented in Paris on Thursday, January 23, the third day of the six-day Paris menswear season that ends on Sunday, January 26. The collection will be live streamed on the brand’s official website and on IM Men’s Instagram account. 

The Miyake Design Studio creative team is led by a triumvirate consisting of Sen Kawahara and Yuki Itakura, both responsible for design/engineering, and Nobutaka Kobayashi, in charge of textile design/engineering. All three of these designers have been with the house for over a decade.
 
“Together, they set out to redefine clothing with the approach to both a garment’s form-making and its construction— developing and advancing clothes-making as derived from the philosophy of a piece of cloth,” the house stressed. In a reference the founder’s revelation that he had been inspired by designer Madelaine Vionnet’s use of geometric calculations and “a single piece of beautiful cloth.”
 
Last year, the house debuted the very first IM Men pop-up store in London to test the waters – retailing very fashion forward ideas like three-dimensional constructions, no-sew knits and unexpected materials.
 
Though founded in Tokyo, the house of Miyake has staged its men’s and women’s runway shows in Paris since the Seventies in various iterations and with different collection titles. The Homme Plissé Issey Miyake collection was first presented in Paris in 2019, and over the last five years it has grown into a celebrated division of the Japanese brand.
 
“We have made new plans for (Homme Plissé Issey Miyake collection) as it moves forward and continues to evolve. We will share more information with you in the spring of next year,” the two executives cautioned.
 
Famed for his technology driven clothing, Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and was living in the city when it was hit by an atomic bomb in August 1945. He died, after becoming a bona fide fashion legend, aged 84 in August 2022.